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It’s the Guns! It’s the Muslims! No, It’s Sin.

12/06/2016 0 Comment

50 people at an Orlando nightclub were targeted, plainly, because of their practice of homosexuality. Omar Mateen reportedly committed himself to ISIS prior to the attack as well.
Yet what will come of this debacle will be the strong-armed, politically savvy propaganda against guns by the Left, and the grandiose, sweeping, anti-Muslim sentiment from the Right. Most on either side are simply grand-staging a tragedy in order to push a political ideology that will do little to actively treat the ro..

Muslim Gang in Nigeria Stabs Non-Muslim for Eating on Ramadan

11/06/2016 0 Comment

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Young Muslim men stabbed a non-Muslim in Kaduna state on Tuesday (June 7) for failing to observe a day-time fast during the month-long Islamic celebration of Ramadan, according to local reports.

Francis Emmanuel Olokpo, who appears to identify as a Christian though his church affiliation was not immediately clear, sustained multiple wounds in the attack. At St. Gerard Hospital in Kaduna city, he told Vanguard newspaper today that he was recovering well.

“Nobo..

Muslim Refugees Respond to Gospel in Nigeria

08/06/2016 0 Comment

Nigeria (Mission Network News) – There are over two million refugees scattered across Northern Nigeria and the surrounding countries. Over half of them are children. Many have lost their homes, and resources in the refugee camps are scarce.

The situation may seem hopeless, but the good news is these people haven’t been abandoned.

“We have these two million people that are actually majority Muslim, but they’re consolidated into dozens of refugee camps all acr..

Muslim Mob in Northern Nigeria Kills Pastor’s Wife on ‘Blasphemy’ Accusation

06/06/2016 0 Comment

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Nigerian officials scrambled to calm religious tensions after Muslims in Kano state on Thursday (June 2) killed a Christian pastor’s wife on a baseless “blasphemy” charge, according to reports.

Bridget Agbahime, a kitchen utensil vendor at Kano city’s Kofar Wambai Market, asked a Muslim engaged in ritual Islamic cleansing, identified as Alhaji Dauda, to move his ritual from her shopfront. She had had similar conflicts with the suspect.

On this occasion she po..

Introducing the New Evangelical History Blog with Thomas Kidd

06/06/2016 0 Comment

I am happy to announce a new blog venture at The Gospel Coalition entitled “Evangelical History,” which will be run by Thomas Kidd and me.

You can go over to the new blog and read Dr. Kidd’s introductory post. He writes:

What do we mean by “evangelical history”? Justin and I both have broad interests in the history of evangelical Christianity, and the history of Christianity, so those will be a major focus here. But we’re also interested in a Christian view of all kinds of history: political, ..

The Vanity of Conspiracy Theories and the Banality of Real Evil

24/05/2016 0 Comment

Now that the Republicans are a handful of delegates away from nominating an ostensible conspiracy theorist* to be their candidate to lead the free world, it’s worth recalling this insightful post by Carl Trueman from a few years ago:

Conspiracy theories have an aesthetic appeal: they make us feel more important in the grand scheme of things than we are. If someone is going to all this trouble to con us into believing in something, then we have to be worth conning; and the impotence we all feel ..

Kidnapped former missionary priest found alive

11/04/2016 0 Comment

Rolando del Torchio, 53, was taken at gunpoint after four men entered his pizzeria in Dipolog City.

A former missionary who was abducted from his restaurant in the Philippines has been found.

Rolando del Torchio, an Italian man who was formerly a missionary priest with the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, was found on Sulu Island in southern Philippines.

The island is a stronghold of the Islamist group Abu Sayyaf.

Preschooler Made to Care about LGBT Agenda in Colorado

05/04/2016 0 Comment

According to The Denver Post, a 4-year-old Aurora, Colorado girl was “kicked out” of a preschool last month when her parents raised questions about books read in her class, including ones that told stories about same-sex couples and worms unsure about their gender.

The girl returned home from school one day concerned that her daddy might not like girls anymore–and her mommy is a girl.

Montview Community Preschool & Kindergarten in Denver — run as a private, parent cooperative — used the stories ..

Top Muslim human rights lawyer receives death threats for speaking out against extremism

04/04/2016 0 Comment

A photograph from 2010 of human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar addressing the press outside the High Court of Scotland after his client Mohammed Atif Siddique, on his right, who was jailed in 2007 on a charge of possessing terrorism-related materials, was freed.

A leading Muslim human rights lawyer has received death threats after he called for unity among members of his own faith.

Police are now investigating after Aamer Anwar, from Glasgow, received death threats from fanatics.

The threat..

Muslims most likely to be pro-Europe, while Christians back Brexit

01/04/2016 0 Comment

A Muslim woman pushes a buggy under a railway bridge in London.

Practising Christians are the most likely among faith communities in England to support the Eurosceptic 'Brexit' position.

Muslims, meanwile, are the most Europhile of all the religious groups, a new survey has found.

The findings came in the new Populus Hope Not Hate survey which throws light for the first time on what different religious groups feel about the EU referendum in June.

“All the questions suggest t..